George bradley



STAWENT OFFICE- W i NEw JEEsEY, AssiGNoE '.rofmcoys. EoGERsQoE n SAME PLAGE.

GEORGE BRADLEY, OF PATERSON,

CAN-BOTTOM FOR ItOVIlI'Gr.` i

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,320, dated November 29,1859; n

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BRADLEY, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Can-Bottoms, which I term the Duplex or Compound Can-Bottom, and by means of which the coiler may be used on the railway drawing-head; and I do hereby declare that the construction and operation of the same is described in the following specification and illustrated in its accompanying drawings with suiiicient clearness to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention. i

Figure l is a perspective view of myinvention with two cans mountedlthereon and with a small portion of the adjoiningmechanism, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken in a plane just above the bottom of the cans.

Similar letters of reference denote like parts in all the drawings.

The well known device known as the coiler is the best means of packing and compressing the rovings within a can; but owing to the difficulty and delay experienced in removing a filled can and substituting an empty one when a coiler is employed it has been practicable to apply it to such machines and such only as deliver the roving slowly. The roving which is delivered during the interval between the removal of one can and the introduction of another is liable to be wasted-if it exceeds a certain very moderate length. With the can bottoms heretofore employeda coiler could not be successfully used on the railway draw-A ing head on account of the great speed with which the cards must deliver the material in order to work with proper economy, and the consequently rapid delivery of the roving into the cans; and the rovings from this machine have consequently been packed into the cans by other and less perfect means inorder to allow the cans to be more conveniently and rapidly exchanged.

My invention renders it practicable to employ the coiler on the railway drawing head or on any other 'however great may be the speed with which the roving is delivered. Its nature consists in so mounting two or more ordinary can bottoms in a frame capable of a partial or complete rotationpthat the filled can may be removed from under the coiler and an empty one substituted in its place by means simplyof ;a partial evo?` lution of the frame.` v v y v v To enable others skilledin the art to make1 and use my invention, I will pr `iceed to de-` scribe its construction and 'operation` by `the aid of the drawings, andofthe letters ofref 1 erence marked thereon. 1" l 1` A is the ordinaryfcoile Iattachedt way drawin "head `or, "to any `other which the de ivery of roving isftoo rapid `tof v `allow ofconveniently chan 'vngfthecansin the ordinary manner. v y l B and B are twocans of the ordi character to receive the rovings. n

C C are two 4ordinary can bottoms of corresponding size geared lat their peripheriesf` to the wheel D which throughthe aidof a 1 train of wheels E `E E mounted beneath conveys a constant rotatory motion `from the shaft a of the *drawing head to both Cf y andC.

H is a platform or frame in which the can y bottoms C and C" are mounted. Itis ca# pable of rotation around the` center of the wheel D. The handle k is employed as a y convenient means :by which H may be turned at pleasure by the handof the attendant. 1

Then the parts are in the ositions repre` sented the can B isbeingfil edwithroving through the coiler A while the can Bisin a position to be readily and leisurely ex-` l changed, being lifted oifits bottom Cif full l and its place supplied `by any empty one, l each of the bottoms `C andCCbeing properly j n 1 rotated on its respective axis by the revolu-` tion of D.` Then the `canBi is `filled fthe attendant having "previously placed an empty one on Cgrasps the handle' h and` by y: q .y a simple and rapid lateral movement; par",` tially rotates H carrying the filledcan B n out from under Ato thegposition shownby` the red line in Fig.`2 andcarryingB under` v A to be filled. B is now taken oil' at leisure y and an empty can substituted in `its place y after which, when B is lled,the`handle h is again grasped and the platform or frame 1 His turned back to the position represented.` By this means the cans` may lit very `closely y under A without a possibility `of any loss'of y time in changing the cans. ;The `roving 1105` simply stretches across fromvone can to the other, to be broken at leisure" when the lled can is removed,` and as the .inovernent` of H n can if required be performed in a very small fraction of a second, therovinglcannotbe` delivered so rapidly as to` reach the Hoor` ywheel K of the striking apparatus. The ordinary bell, hammer, and spring, are mounted upon I in the ordinary manner but instead of K being operated by a train of gearing from a as usual it-is provided with a series of suitable springs or wings lc adapted to be struck by e and to receive motion therefrom at each revolution ofthe cans. By making K and 0A of a proper size and providing a proper number of wings 7c the bell is made to strike after such a number of revolutions of C as are desired, and thus the bell is made to indicate when the cans are filled with the same effect as heretofore.

My invention allows the cans to be lled more regularly than heretofore and therefore allows the rovings to be delivered therefrom in better condition. It also allows cans of a iven size to contain more roving by which t e number of the cans may be reduced and the changes may be made less frequently. It also simpliesand perfects the striking mechanism by dispensing with the worm wheels and gearing heretofore required to reduce the motion.

Having now fully described my invention what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- So mounting two or more ordinary can bottoms C C that the lled can may be removed from under the coiler and an empty one substituted in its place by means simply of a partial revolution of the frame I-I, substantially as above described.

GEORGE BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

THOMAS D. STE'rSoN, WM. B.y SMITH. 

